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Sadly not in the cards for us in 2024. Expecting a new baby this year and it's going to throw a wrench in our ability to do much of anything.

While I'm not attending this year, in general, I don't mind having kids around. Some of us were pretty much a kids when we went to our first mittens and it's only natural this event changes as we do.

Hope ya'll get enough interest this year.

Just booked all my travel! I'll be coming in late on the 15th, won't touch down till 10:30pm.

Leaving by train at 11:00 the following Saturday. Looking forward to seeing some new and old faces.

I'll have to think about this one. Count me (+1) as a maybe.

I'm fully ok with families being involved if it means we get to see more old friends.

I think Sweden is the place to go. It looks like we have more people willing to attend.

Which makes me feel better about backing out if Quintaros can't make it. I can't cheat on my Mittens wife (openly).

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Drop the kid off at the Kennel. It'll be fine.

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Sweden works for me.

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I'd prefer not to go Croatia.

I'd be game for going back to England. Iceland is also on my personal wish list.

[*if*]

Let's switch it to Europe *if* we can get more people to attend. In all fairness this mittens is too close to last years mittens. We can do the Caribbean the year after. Grundislav was the one who recommended this location and he's not even sure he'll be able to attend it.

We can go back to countries or even rent the same places again. We've had plenty of variety and a fifteen year cycle ain't too shabby. I would be more than willing to just start back where it all began.

Could we get the number of people who would (definitely) go if it was somewhere in Europe?

I can do the Caribbean. Not sure about Cuba, or rather I'm fairly certain that Cuba is not worth the hassle.

We might want to plan around hurricane season considering the peak times are August\September (hurricane season goes from June through the November).

Geeks Guide to the Galaxy Podcast (Topic: Pixel Art)

Listened to this podcast and thought I'd share. It has a panel of pixel artists discussing the future of Pixel Art. One of the panelists was an artist for Secret of Monkey Island and is currently working on the Thimbleweed project. The podcast itself is one of my favorite's for anything sci-fi related.

I think Pixel Art will be here for a while, but it's going to be niche, and probably rarely will be mainstream.

-MillsJROSS

Got back home safely. After a six year gap in time it was truly wonderful to see how quickly I was able to gel with old friends, and just as nice was making new friends. I was a little nervous coming back to Mittens after so long. I was worried it might not be the same. I was worried I hadn't really worked on anything AGS related in some time and wouldn't relate. I was worried that I had grown out of it. You guys showed me that wasn't the case, and I really am thankful I got to share this time with you.

I feel far more energized creatively after seeing the show and tell.

The thing I learned the most, though, was that Tzach is almost always the spy. Also skinning garbanzo beans does make a legitimate difference in the taste of Hummus.

I'm interested in seeing the long-term affects of swimming in high levels of bacteria. I'm expecting us to have mutant super-powers next Mittens.

-MillsJROSS

P.S. someone left there cell phone in my car. It's an iphone with Superman the Movie logo as the screen. I believe it's Quintaros's, but in the event it's not and someone is missing their phone, PM me and I'll ship it back to you.

If Gunnar's hotel is near the airport and Mills gets there by noon, would it be possible for you to pick us up at the airport? By "us" I mean Darren, Tzach, Noa, and me.

That's fine, but if I'm the only one with a car in the morning, it actually might be best to use the hotel as a staging area until one more car comes along, since I'm counting 6 people (Grundy, Snarky, Darrren, Tzach, Noa, and myself plus luggage). When do AGA, ddq get into town?

Sure, I'll join. I don't have a time nailed down, but I'd guess I'll be there sometime between 10-12am. It just depends on how tired I get on the drive over here.

Could you PM me the hotel location and phone number.

Pandemic, Star Trek themed Catan, and a few others from me.

This Amtrak Station?
1001 Loyola Ave
New Orleans, LA 70113

Disco, I'm going to swap cell #s with you via private message, so's we can contact each other.

I'm thinking some truly New Orleans for Dinner. Popeye's Chicken!

I'm driving in and I might be there either late on the 6th or early morning on the 7th (depending on how sleepy I am after work). Getting excited, the last vacation I had was the last Mittens (Florida) I attended, so this was badly needed. Looking forward to seeing some old and new faces.

Mods, just do what I'm doing and drive. I'm saving 50%!

I was hesitant about going to New Orleans during the heat of August but if this is the year that Mills is returning to Mittens I think I should make my return also.

If you're going, I'm doubly going! Unless that means I have to pay twice, in which case, I'm just singly going. Not it for food poisoning this trip.

This is the year I can finally make it back to Mittens (I think it's been like 5 years since Miami mittens)!

I've intended to go sooner but something tragically has been preventing me (broken arm, knee surgery, new job with no time off accrued, no money, etc...). And while I'm in the midst of looking for possibly another job opportunity, the current and potential new opportunity both have open time off policies, so I don't see that being an issue, and I've been saving my money from all the previously cancelled times.

So count me 100% in. Assuming there's still room, just tell me how I can get my money into the right hands. I don't mind sharing rooms, in fact I demand it!

I purchases/played this a couple of weeks ago.

I finished it in one sitting (not accounting for bathroom breaks). I found the pacing was good, and the story was different (in a good way!). Big bonus...I didn't need to cheat. It was worth all the money I paid for it, and at the time it wasn't on sale .

Looking forward to the next game, Grundi!